Sentences with phrase «grow as a character actor»

Not exact matches

Over the course of the series, as Voldemort gathered in power and corporeality, his wrenched, Medusa - like face eventually growing a body (though oddly losing its nose), the actor started to fill out the character with sharp, indelible gestures, a flick of the wrist, a twist of the mouth.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

That very immobility gives the movie a chance to slow down and concentrate on the relationship among these three young people, whom we've watched grow up as both actors and characters since the first Potter movie in 2001.

Hemsworth wears his facial hair as a sign of the character's battered - but - unbowed soul, but in Evans» case it looks as if it's not just Rogers but the actor who has grown a bit depressed at the prospect of being Captain America.

English character actor Timothy Spall plays the painter over the last 25 years of his life as his work began to grow more abstract.

Bryan Singer has taken to Instagram to announce that Lucas Till is set to reprise his role as Alex Summers / Havok in next year's X-Men: Apocalypse, with the actor joining an ever growing list of characters in the mutant superhero sequel.

Wiseau, an abysmal actor, unwittingly underscores countless moments of unintentional comedy — from grown men in tuxedos tossing around a football while standing about two feet apart to characters constantly greeting each other with «Oh, hi» as if they're shocked to see them — with an offbeat creepiness that makes me shiver instead of laugh.

The performances from Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman evolve as every episode grows, the actors getting some more emotional and character driven moments to work with.

But just as lead actors in Woody Allen films frequently mimic the tics of their director, so female writers working with him, including Schumer, invariably create typical Apatow characters — the stunted adolescent who can't grow up — just with added oestrogen.

From the close - ups of the actor to his delicate scenes opposite Cynthia Nixon (who plays his cancer - stricken mother), the film is an intimate look at the main character as he struggles with his own demons and his mother's growing illness.